
| Contents |
| Dates of sessions |
| Party summary |
| Leadership |
| Major events |
| Major legislation |
| Members |
| Senate |
| House of Representatives |
| Delegates |
| Changes in membership |
| Officers |
| References |
| External links |
| :'Senate' ★ Democratic ''(D)'': 35 ★ Republican ''(R)'': 40 ''(majority)'' ★ Independent ''(I)'': 1'TOTAL members: 76' | :'House of Representatives' ★ Democratic ''(D)'': 155 ''(majority)'' ★ Republican ''(R)'': 136 ★ Independent Democratic ''(ID)'': 2'TOTAL members: 293' |
| :'Alabama' ★ 3: George E. Spencer ''(R)'' ★ 2: John T. Morgan ''(D)'' :'Arkansas' ★ 3: Stephen W. Dorsey ''(R)'' ★ 2: Augustus H. Garland ''(D)'' :'California' ★ 3: Aaron A. Sargent ''(R)'' ★ 1: Newton Booth ''(R'' :'Colorado' ★ 3: Jerome B. Chaffee ''(R)'' ★ 2: Henry M. Teller ''(R)'' :'Connecticut' ★ 1: William W. Eaton ''(D)'' ★ 3: William H. Barnum ''(D)'' :'Delaware' ★ 1: Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. ''(D)'' ★ 2: Eli M. Saulsbury ''(D)'' :'Florida' ★ 3: Simon B. Conover ''(R)'' ★ 1: Charles W. Jones ''(D)'' :'Georgia' ★ 3: John B. Gordon ''(D)'' ★ 2: Benjamin H. Hill ''(D)'' :'Illinois' ★ 3: Richard J. Oglesby ''(R)'' ★ 2: David Davis ''(I)'' :'Indiana' ★ 3: Oliver H. P. T. Morton ''(R)'' ★ : Daniel W. Voorhees ''(D)'' ★ 1: Joseph E. McDonald ''(D)'' :'Iowa' ★ 3: William B. Allison ''(R)'' ★ 2: Samuel J. Kirkwood ''(R)'' :'Kansas' ★ 3: John J. Ingalls ''(R)'' ★ 2: Preston B. Plumb ''(R)'' :'Kentucky' ★ 3: Thomas C. McCreery ''(D)'' ★ 2: James B. Beck ''(D)'' | :'Louisiana' ★ 2: William Pitt Kellogg ''(R)'' ★ 3: James B. Eustis ''(D)'' :'Maine' ★ 1: Hannibal Hamlin ''(R)'' ★ 2: James G. Blaine ''(R)'' :'Maryland' ★ 3: George R. Dennis ''(D)'' ★ 1: William Pinkney Whyte ''(D)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ 1: Henry L. Dawes ''(R)'' ★ 2: George F. Hoar ''(R)'' :'Michigan' ★ 2: Thomas W. Ferry ''(R)'' ★ 1: Isaac P. Christiancy ''(R)'' ★ : Zachariah Chandler ''(R)'' :'Minnesota' ★ 2: William Windom ''(R)'' ★ 1: Samuel J. R. McMillan ''(R)'' :'Mississippi' ★ 1: Blanche K. Bruce ''(R)'' ★ 2: Lucius Q. C. Lamar ''(D)'' :'Missouri' ★ 3: Lewis V. Bogy ''(D)'' ★ : David H. Armstrong ''(D)'' ★ : James Shields ''(D)'' ★ 1: Francis M. Cockrell ''(D)'' :'Nebraska' ★ 1: Algernon S. Paddock ''(R)'' ★ 2: Alvin Saunders ''(R)'' :'Nevada' ★ 3: John P. Jones ''(R)'' ★ 1: William Sharon ''(R)'' :'New Hampshire' ★ 3: Bainbridge Wadleigh ''(R)'' ★ 2: Edward H. Rollins ''(R)'' :'New Jersey' ★ 1: Theodore F. Randolph ''(D)'' ★ 2: John R. McPherson ''(D)'' | :'New York' ★ 3: Roscoe Conkling ''(R)'' ★ 1: Francis Kernan ''(D)'' :'North Carolina' ★ 2: Matt W. Ransom ''(D)'' ★ 3: Augustus S. Merrimon ''(D)'' :'Ohio' ★ 3: John Sherman ''(R)'' ★ : T. Stanley Matthews ''(R)'' ★ 1: Allen G. Thurman ''(D)'' :'Oregon' ★ 3: John H. Mitchell ''(R)'' ★ 2: La Fayette Grover ''(D)'' :'Pennsylvania' ★ 3: Simon Cameron ''(R)'' ★ : J. Donald Cameron ''(R)'' ★ 1: William A. Wallace ''(D)'' :'Rhode Island' ★ 2: Henry B. Anthony ''(R)'' ★ 1: Ambrose E. Burnside ''(R)'' :'South Carolina' ★ 3: John J. Patterson ''(R)'' ★ 2: Matthew C. Butler ''(D)'' :'Tennessee' ★ 1: James E. Bailey ''(D)'' ★ 2: Isham G. Harris ''(D)'' :'Texas' ★ 1: Samuel B. Maxey ''(D)'' ★ 2: Richard Coke ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ 1: George F. Edmunds ''(R)'' ★ 3: Justin S. Morrill ''(R)'' :'Virginia' ★ 2: John W. Johnston ''(D)'' ★ 1: Robert E. Withers ''(D)'' :'West Virginia' ★ 2: Henry G. Davis ''(D)'' ★ 1: Frank Hereford ''(D)'' :'Wisconsin' ★ 3: Timothy O. Howe ''(R)'' ★ 1: Angus Cameron ''(R)'' | President ''pro tempore'' Thomas W. Ferry |
| :'Senate' ★ replacements: 5 ★ ★ Democratic: 1 seat net gain ★ ★ Republican: 1 seat net loss ★ deaths: 2 ★ resignations: 2 ★ interim appointments: 1 ★ contested elections: 2 ★ 'Total seats with changes: 6' | :'House of Representatives' ★ replacements: 6 ★ ★ Democratic: no net change ★ ★ Republican: no net change ★ deaths: 7 ★ resignations: 1 ★ contested election: 5 ★ 'Total seats with changes: 13' |
| :'Senate' ★ Secretary of the Senate: ★ ★ George C. Gorham of Massachusetts elected June 4 1868 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: ★ ★ John R. French of New Hampshire, elected March 22 1869 ★ Chaplain of the Senate ★ ★ The Rev. Byron Sunderland, ''Presbyterian'', elected December 8 1873:'Other' ★ Architect of the Capitol: ★ ★ Edward Clark, appointed August 30 1865 | :'House of Representatives' ★ Clerk of the House: ★ ★ George M. Adams of Kentucky, elected October 15 1877 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the House: ★ ★ John G. Thompson of Ohio, elected October 15 1877 ★ Doorkeeper of the House: ★ ★ John W. Polk of Missouri, elected October 15 1877 ★ Postmaster of the House: ★ ★ James M. Steuart of Virginia, elected October 15 1877 ★ Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: ★ ★ William H. Scudder ★ ★ J. Randolph Tucker, Jr. ★ Chaplain of the House ★ ★ The Rev. John Poise, ''Methodist'', elected October 15 1877 ★ ★ The Rev. W. P. Harrison, ''Methodist'', elected December 3 1877 |